BALL PUNCHING FOR BEAUTY.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 641, 14 June 1921, Page 8

BALL PUNCHING FOR BEAUTY.

Tire woman with the. most beautiful shoulders in the world, Miss Juliette Compton, says she acquired her fullness and contour of shoulders by regularly practising the popular dances in which there is so much movement of the shoulders. But a better way for the energetic gif to remove the hollows from her neck and the angularity is to take up boll-punching as a pastime. Moreover, it provides that which is often needed by girls who have to walk home alone through lonely districts—a means of self-defence. A punch-hall, can he bought for twenty-one shillings upwards. It is a large egg-shaped leather hall like a Rugby football, attached hv two strings to rubber cords by means of which it can he suspended between the ceiling and the floor. As the name implies, you punch it, and it punches back. The girl who regularly taps the punch-ball soon loses all ugliness ami irregularity of figures. The muscles exercised are chiefly those which affect the contour of the neck. A girl acquires physical fitness, grace, lightness and quickness of movement, together with self-reliance and resource.

It will be good fun from the start. But just at first it may be rather a fag, for rapid ball-punching tires, because the muscles brought into play are the neglected “lazy” muscles. Therefore, the time of practice should be extended a little every day.

Playing thus with the ball gives a o!i 1 what she lacks in her ordinary life —free movement of the muscles. Boxing and ball-punching are now finding favour with many athletic girls.